Facebook Inc’s (FB.O) WhatsApp is confining worldwide the number of times a user can forward a message to five, starting on Monday,21st, the popular messaging service looks to fight “misinformation and rumours”. The company executives said on Monday

Before now, a WhatsApp user could forward a message to 20 individuals or groups. The limit of five is in expansion of a measure WhatsApp put in place in India in July after the spread of rumours on social media led to killings and lynching attempts. “We’re imposing a limit of five messages all over the world as of today,” Victoria Grand, Vice President for Policy and Communications at WhatsApp, said at an event in the Indonesian capital. WhatsApp, which has around 1.5 billion users, has been trying to find ways to stop misuse of the app.